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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Even something simple like converting HTTP links to HTTPS or updating “number of likes” in real-time, becomes a monumental architectural challenge.

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Israel Generative AI predictions for 2024

VC Cafe

With that being said, corporates have generally leaned in to the generative AI trend and are currently working out their own strategy to implement generative AI and automation into their products safely. LLMs have driven an increased demand for data, caused a complete architecture change inside companies and changed how data is manipulated.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

Lean, MVPs and the DOD. To be able to do that, you need this backend infrastructure and architecture, so that a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Space Force wherever they are, can design an app on the spot, relying on this backend infrastructure, that Joint Common Foundation. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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How Your Digital Marketing Strategy Can Help Your Business Get Funding

Up and Running

But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. Linking to government and academic websites can be an effective SEO tactic. But if you’re operating on a lean budget, you or someone in your company might want to give building your own site a try.

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How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture

Steve Blank

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. One of the biggest benefits to this process was that it helped shift the focus of the Marines from nebulous systems-centric thinking—“The network architecture sucks”—to identifying specific pain points impeding their productivity on the job.

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